*Corresponding author: Prof. Hamid Nasri, Department of Nephrology, Division of Nephropathology, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran. Email: [email protected] Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education: It is well known that hyperuricemia is an independent risk factor for renal progression in IgA nephropathy, however it is unclear the effect of al...

1 Pediatrics, Child Growth and Development Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan 81676-36954, Iran 2 Pediatric Cardiology, Preventive Cardiology Department, Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA 3 Epidemiology, School of Public Health, and Knowledge Utilization Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 4 Faculty of Education & Social Work, Th...

Fatemeh Ajalloueian1,2, Moa Fransson3, Hossein Tavanai1, Mohammad Massumi4, Jöns Hilborn2, Katarina Leblanc5, Ayyoob Arpanaei6* and Peetra U Magnusson3* 1Department of Textile Engineering, Center of Excellence in Applied Nanotechnology, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, 84156-83111, Iran 2Polymer Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Ångström Laboratory, SciLife Lab, Uppsala University, ...

1Department of Pathobiology and Laboratory Science, School of Medicine, North Khorasan University of Medical Sciences, Bojnurd, Iran; 2Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran; 3Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran; 4Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Semnan U...

By increasing the number of cardiovascular procedures, iodinated contrast media (ICM) is one of the most common agents used for diagnostic and prognostic and also therapeutic cardiac interventions. Contrast induced nephropathy (CIN) is one of the most leading causes of hospital-acquired renal insufficiency (1). Following cardiovascular invasive procedures, CIN occurs in about 3.1 to 31% of pati...

The metabolism of the cartilage proteoglycan aggrecan was studied in patients with osteoarthritis (OA, n = 83), rheumatoid arthritis (RA, n = 127), and in controls (n = 117) using monoclonal antibody-based radioimmunoassays for glycosaminoglycans in the serum and synovial fluid (SF) to detect epitope 846 on chondroitin sulfate (probably only on recently synthesized molecules) and a keratan sulf...